The Seven-Per-Cent Solution [2 Discs] [DVD/Blu-ray]

Overview

In this Sherlock Holmes adventure, the Great Detective's friend and chronicler Doctor Watson, concerned that Holmes' drug dependency is getting out of hand, suggests a cure under the auspices of Viennese psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. While undergoing treatment, Holmes undertakes a tricky conspiracy case involving another ex-addict, beautiful actress Lola Devereaux.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/22/2013
UPC:	0826663137859
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	PG
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:53:00
Sales rank:	5,940

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nicol Williamson	Sherlock Holmes
Alan Arkin	Dr. Sigmund Freud
Robert Duvall	Dr. John H. Watson
Vanessa Redgrave	Lola Deveraux
Laurence Olivier	Prof. Moriarty
Joel Grey	Lowenstein
Samantha Eggar	Mary Watson
Jeremy Kemp	Baron von Leinsdorf
Georgia Brown	Mrs. Freud
Anna Quayle	Freda
Jill Townsend	Mrs. Holmes
John Bird	Berger
Alison Leggatt	Mrs. Hudson
Frederick Jaeger	Marker
Erik Chitty	The Butler
Jack May	Dr. Schultz
Gertan Klauber	The Pasha
Leon Greene	Squire Holmes
Michael Blagdon	Young Holmes
Ashley House	Young Freud
Sheila Shand Gibbs	Nun
Erich Padalewsky	Stationmaster
Régine	Madame
Charles Gray	Mycroft Holmes
John Hill	Train Engineer
John Addison	Composer
Erich Padalewski	Station Master
Harry Fielder	Drunk Man
Drewe Henley	Actor

Technical Credits

Nicholas Meyer

Herbert Ross	Director,Producer
Nicholas Meyer	Screenwriter
Arlene Sellers	Executive Producer
Alex Winitsky	Executive Producer
Stanley O'Toole	Producer
Gordon K. McCallum	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Cyril Swern	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Drugs hook Sherlock Holmes in this 1976 Herbert Ross film that reveals the human side of the super sleuth, and throws in a real-life psychiatric legend for good measure. Under the influence of his "seven percent solution," the cocaine mixture he concocts to ease his mental anguish, Holmes goes a bit bonkers and makes a bloody nuisance of himself. Nicol Williamson brilliantly plays the vulnerable Holmes, a role that many critics believe should have won him an Oscar. Williamson receives strong support from Robert Duvall as Dr. Watson and Alan Arkin as Freud. The period atmosphere and costumes are first rate, as is Nicholas Meyer's screen adaptation of his own novel. The plot moves briskly along, and despite the focus on the heady stuff of psychiatry and criminology, includes plenty of good, old-fashioned physical derring-do, including a sword fight atop a moving train.